Learning martial arts is not an easy venture. It requires patience, dedication, discipline, and focus. Not to mention that it also requires plenty of time, a healthy body, and a sound mind. But no matter how grueling the training, giving up is never an option when it comes to learning martial arts. The road to becoming an expert martial artist may be long and tiring but we’re here to cheer you up with these inspiring quotes from famous martial artists:

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
— Bruce Lee

“Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter! Try again. Fail again. Fail better!
Understand? Good. Play.”
— Masaaki Hatsumi

“In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situations without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.”
— Miyamoto Musashi

“I’m not teaching you how to fight. I am teaching you how to control evil. That’s what we are really doing here.”
— Sake Masaaki Hatsumi

“The Chinese words ‘kung fu’ translates more or less as ‘a man hard at work over a long time’. If you want to unlock the full power of kung fu, it is not going to be easy: you are going to have to work, you are going to have to sacrifice and you are going to have to suffer – over a long time. There really is no such thing as a free lunch.”
— Master Iain Armstrong

Go for your passion. Don’t give up and train harder!